MSE Parents Club Part 11

csh_2

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

A baby who gets into bother the minute I leave the room!! I went through this process and then decided that anything I bought wasn't going to contain him for long (he is most defintely a free-range baby!) so why waste my money?

If I really need him to be contained for a few mins I stick him in his highchair (in front of CBeebies if needs be ), most of the time I let him roam free and don't leave him for long!!

My CM has a paddling pool which she fills with balls - but that will only keep a baby contained until they start crawling?

The only way to contain them is a baby cage

Agree in principle with free range baby but hes only six months and I do sometimes need to use the toilet and whatever!
I don't trust him unattended in the highchair either.
Just would rather not have a baby cage from so young but will prob get one eventually!

Just having one of those 'I need a minute to myself' days. I'm only on here cos DD is off school and rolling about the floor with him!

Evansangel

She's asleep now...

csh_2

Fitzio wrote: »

Csh - There are a couple of L&G Activity Centres on my local Netmums for £40. If you are interested, I could check them out. Tempted myself, but hubby would probably kill me as we have no room left. We have the playgym, Jumperoo, highchair, Vtech walker, toybox, cradle swing and bouncy chair in the living room. No wonder there is no room for me to do the Wii Fit!

Off for a shower now. x

I went back about a fortnight on Netmums and found one for £40 in my town that is still for sale so I've mailed to see if she'll take less or :money: depending on your mindset lol

3onitsway

csh wrote: »

Agree in principle with free range baby but hes only six months and I do sometimes need to use the toilet and whatever!
I don't trust him unattended in the highchair either.
Just would rather not have a baby cage from so young but will prob get one eventually!

Just having one of those 'I need a minute to myself' days. I'm only on here cos DD is off school and rolling about the floor with him!

I'd have thought a cage is one of those things you'd have to use from young. My thinking is that if you wait til they're bigger and more independant, they'd dislike suddenly being restricted.

V is free range. I have a gate on the bottom of the stairs, make sure the bathroom door (its downstairs :mad:) is closed, and she's pretty much free to roam.

I think i'm going to attempt to clip J's hair while we're alone. It's my (& his) least favorite thing, but desperately needs doing.

carlamagee

afternoon.
im having a bit of a "bleugh" day. I want to do something....but just not sure what that "something" is. :cool:

Hope Elle is having an OK day at work.

Hope all the rest of u ladies that are meeting have a super time too..

My_Fathers_Daughter

LOL - it makes me smile how I am victorian mum in some ways and 'let em do what they want' mum in other ways! Other than a fireguard and some soft corners on sharp edges I haven't baby proofed and if I do pop to the loo then Benjamin is left to it, always has been, and he was crawling at 5 1/2 months!

Although TBH, other than 60 seconds to pop in the downstairs loo, I mostly either waited until he was asleep or took him with me wherever I was going!

pigpen

I don't 'babyproof' either.. I don't have a fireguard, corners are there to bump yourself on lol.. no stair gates.. they'd be impossible to fit anyway.. but once they learn to go up the stairs I teach them to come down so less likely to fall.. the only person ever to fall down our stairs.. is me!! I did it twice in a week a few months ago lol.

When I went to the loo I'd just shut the door of the room they were in and they'd potter about.. or scream until I got back.. they won't explode from a bit of wailing.

Though it seems the worst falls the children have had have been when they were being looked after by dad! Tiddles fell down the back step and skinned her entire nose and DS1 bumped his head on the table at MIL's and had the biggest lump ever! But.. they fix!

tiamai_d

I don't baby proof. I Christopher proof. Much, much worse. I caught him chewing the table earlier. Just sitting there gnawing away.

carlamagee

i dont babyproof much; we have a fireguard, but it sits behind the sofa collecting dust. even when we have the fire on at night, no fireguard on - we taught katie and in process of teaching christopher that you dont go near it.
Christophers fav at the minute is trying to chew on the laptop charger wire. he gets so upset when you tell him no and bring him away from it...

whats everyone having for lunch!? I want something really lovely.....I missed breakfast this morning.

csh_2

Ok sorry. Didn't mean to start a 'baby proofing' debate. Hes not wrapped in cotton wool and he never will be but at the same time, if he falls on his face when hes unattended it will hurt. I'm only trying to avoid that.
It'd be different if he was 9/10 mths with more awareness of his own limitations and more steady at sitting but he is only small and fearless.

I had no fireguards/stairgates or baby cages with DD but she was content to play where I put her at K's age, he is not, he wants to throw himself around and get into everything.

Thank you to all who made suggestions.